What does Auditmaker do?

Auditmaker is a tool for performing clinical audits. An audit involves several steps:

Formulating a question. This could be as simple as "How many patients were admitted to each
ward last month?" Or as complex as "Do patients fare better post-operatively depending on how
many co-morbidities they have, and is the type of procedure relevant?"

Constructing a survey. Basically, a clinical audit involves the collection and analysing
of clinical data. Before you collect data, you need to nominate some very specific questions
that you will answer for each case. If your audit involves a cohort of patients, for example,
the first few questions might be "What was the patient's age? Sex? Weight?"

Data collection. After constructing the survey, you need to complete it for every case
that you are examining.

Reporting and data analysis. The final phase is producing results: analysing the data you
have collected, comparing it to other results, and, ultimately, answering the question you posed
in step 1.

Auditmaker will help you with steps 2, 3 and 4. Obviously you need to formulate your own questions,
and if you are intending to work with Auditmaker, you've probably already got some questions in mind.
Auditmaker allows you to construct a survey, collect data, and produce reports on that data.

Is this related to the free Microsoft Access-based Auditmaker?

The free prototype of Auditmaker is based on (and requires)
Microsoft Access. Written by Dr. Sepehr Shakib, it is a great tool for getting into clinical auditing,
though it has some limitations. This application is the next generation of Auditmaker: a web-based
tool that removes many of the limitations of the free prototype. Most importantly, you can now
collaborate on audits with colleagues in a seamless fashion, from anywhere you have access to a web
browser.